I find it amusing how quick people are to dismiss any possibility of a creator (e.g. God) but will believe in a theory that could only be illustrated by a group of individuals acting as "the creator" by purposely and intelligently orchestrating life. Even if the scientists involved could create a 100% "life" form using plasma, the fact that it was done with human intelligence and by procedure automatically discredits their findings which are ultimately suggesting life was based on life from chaos and randomness.
Google is the scariest IMHO. They retain every single query, ip address, and timestamp, but they won't say what it's used for. At least we know Verisign is going to use it for shamless advertising.
IMHO, this should be left up to the browser software and not the DNS server..otherwise you end up with the same scenario with ISPs using it as an advertising gimmick. I believe MSIE performs a search on what you type in. I don't see why all browsers couldn't be outfitted to do something like this.
Remember, web browsers aren't the only thing that use BIND. You certainly don't want BIND suggesting possible matches to an SMTP server to deliver your private mail =). The solution would be best served at the client software end IMHO.
The big difference between a proverbial "electric" vehicle and a hydrogen vehicle, as you've pointed out, is the energy storage approach, and that is a HUGE advantage. Anything that runs on batteries in lieu of hydrogen is yesterday's prototype. Not to say conversion wouldn't be easy.
So that gives you just over 300 miles a "tank" before you have to stop and recharge...which AFAIK takes significantly longer than pumping gas...unless you were able to do what the first post suggested and harness the power of lightning (or plutonium) to get your 1.21 gigawatts.
But the other reason is having to stop and recharge for an hour during the morning commute. Hydrogen-based vehicles are the future, electric was a nice thought.
Looking at this overview, some of the changes just don't make sense, and give me the feeling that they want to just screw the consumer into forced upgrades by making it as incompatible as possible. This design is also going to piss off quite a few techs.
First off, they put the interface cards on the other side of the motherboard (without reason), but they also moved the CPU so that it would be right in front of the fan. Makes more sense to put both the cards and the CPU in front of the fan if you want maximum efficiency. The gay cooling duct module is going to make it a pain to get into your system to add memory or change jumpers around (not that I do it very often, but techs do). Ever spend time working on a Sun? No? That's because nobody likes to work on them for these same reasons.
And PCI Express? Come on, the last thing we need is to go back to the days where we had to worry about PCI/ISA/VLB with the parts we buy. Theres nothing wrong with AGP for a video controller; this is just ATi and Intel's way of forcing you to buy a new card to use BTX. And if buying a new video card doesn't piss you off enough, the video riser board completely blocks your acess to anything near the CPU.
Ironic how cooling was the LAST thing mentioned in the article, as you'd want to piss people off AFTER giving them the good news. On the other hand there's not much good news...it's still a little plastic fan that rotates. And they changed the shape to make you feel obsolete even if you do use your existing power supply.
It's all bullshit.
I quit playing with transformers when I was around 12. I see no desire to carry around the added weight of the desktop form factor with me, not to mention a laptop takes up significantly less space on my desk. Since functionality doesn't change, there's no real reason for me to ever want one of these idiotic looking things. If you're going to do transformer-type crap like this, make it a laptop that turns into a stihl, or a portable Matrix, or something useful like that.
They should schedule these press releases around movie releases like Armageddon and Deep Impact... support from the community would have been much better.
When are parents going to start taking responsibility for raising their own kids. If you're not going to spend the time to instill enough morals in your kids to know that killing is wrong, you have no business being a parent let alone blaming a video game for your poor parenting...not to mention the parents are probably the ones who bought them the console and the game. These are probably the same parents who are suing McDonalds for getting them fat. Total lack of accepting any responsibility, this is what today's parents look like.
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It's not compulsary. Depending on your distribution there should be ways to leave out parts of Gnome you don't want. Consult your package manager documentation... [quote]
Sounds strangely familiar, and my hope is it doesn't turn into:
"I think that Microsoft would probably say that these are simply enhancements to a user's experience," he said. "The sensitivity here is (because of) Microsoft's dominance on the desktop."
"There are shades of IE" in Microsoft's Windows XP strategy, said Charles King, an analyst with Zona Research in Redwood City, California, in a recent interview. "It does raise the specter again as to what constitutes an operating system."
Isn't this kind of a Microsoft-ish approach...bundling a desktop environment with lame add-on dependencies that I don't want to use?
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Ah, yet another wimpy little software patent protest on gnome's website. I'm sure having a little button will sway all of Europe to vote against them...just like all the little yellow ribbons stopped terrorism, and all the little pink ribbons stopped breast cancer. Wasn't there a button to stop abortion, and another little button you could wear to fight the war on drugs? Seriously, this is a pathetic display of protest and will achieve nothing. If you really want to protest software patents in Europe, take a more dramatic approach like some sites did the first day (rpmfind) and pull the plug on all your downloads. Imagine what kind of effect it would have if half the software in the world disappeared for a little while...certainly enough firepower to make Europe think twice...or maybe not...but it's a hell of a lot better than posting a stupid little button on your website.
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How is that off-topic...or do you not know what SpeakFreely is designed to do? RTFA.
Can you hear me now? Hello? Hello?
I find it amusing how quick people are to dismiss any possibility of a creator (e.g. God) but will believe in a theory that could only be illustrated by a group of individuals acting as "the creator" by purposely and intelligently orchestrating life. Even if the scientists involved could create a 100% "life" form using plasma, the fact that it was done with human intelligence and by procedure automatically discredits their findings which are ultimately suggesting life was based on life from chaos and randomness.
Google is the scariest IMHO. They retain every single query, ip address, and timestamp, but they won't say what it's used for. At least we know Verisign is going to use it for shamless advertising.
Complete with integrated blogging and privacy issues.
IMHO, this should be left up to the browser software and not the DNS server..otherwise you end up with the same scenario with ISPs using it as an advertising gimmick. I believe MSIE performs a search on what you type in. I don't see why all browsers couldn't be outfitted to do something like this.
Remember, web browsers aren't the only thing that use BIND. You certainly don't want BIND suggesting possible matches to an SMTP server to deliver your private mail =). The solution would be best served at the client software end IMHO.
Of course not, that would be ridiculous. We keep ours in the living room.
The big difference between a proverbial "electric" vehicle and a hydrogen vehicle, as you've pointed out, is the energy storage approach, and that is a HUGE advantage. Anything that runs on batteries in lieu of hydrogen is yesterday's prototype. Not to say conversion wouldn't be easy.
So that gives you just over 300 miles a "tank" before you have to stop and recharge...which AFAIK takes significantly longer than pumping gas...unless you were able to do what the first post suggested and harness the power of lightning (or plutonium) to get your 1.21 gigawatts.
But the other reason is having to stop and recharge for an hour during the morning commute. Hydrogen-based vehicles are the future, electric was a nice thought.
They could only measure 0-60 because at 4 seconds, the li-ion batteries are all dead.
Wow that's great, so let NASA use it. I seriously doubt anyone's going to have a problem filling up their AGP playing half life.
...optimized for Windows 95
In an attempt to clear out all the old inventory closets, the new S3 card will be available in either ISA or Vesa.
Looking at this overview, some of the changes just don't make sense, and give me the feeling that they want to just screw the consumer into forced upgrades by making it as incompatible as possible. This design is also going to piss off quite a few techs. First off, they put the interface cards on the other side of the motherboard (without reason), but they also moved the CPU so that it would be right in front of the fan. Makes more sense to put both the cards and the CPU in front of the fan if you want maximum efficiency. The gay cooling duct module is going to make it a pain to get into your system to add memory or change jumpers around (not that I do it very often, but techs do). Ever spend time working on a Sun? No? That's because nobody likes to work on them for these same reasons. And PCI Express? Come on, the last thing we need is to go back to the days where we had to worry about PCI/ISA/VLB with the parts we buy. Theres nothing wrong with AGP for a video controller; this is just ATi and Intel's way of forcing you to buy a new card to use BTX. And if buying a new video card doesn't piss you off enough, the video riser board completely blocks your acess to anything near the CPU. Ironic how cooling was the LAST thing mentioned in the article, as you'd want to piss people off AFTER giving them the good news. On the other hand there's not much good news...it's still a little plastic fan that rotates. And they changed the shape to make you feel obsolete even if you do use your existing power supply. It's all bullshit.
I quit playing with transformers when I was around 12. I see no desire to carry around the added weight of the desktop form factor with me, not to mention a laptop takes up significantly less space on my desk. Since functionality doesn't change, there's no real reason for me to ever want one of these idiotic looking things. If you're going to do transformer-type crap like this, make it a laptop that turns into a stihl, or a portable Matrix, or something useful like that.
They should schedule these press releases around movie releases like Armageddon and Deep Impact... support from the community would have been much better.
It's called the Universal Service Fee. All congress is saying is "heck with the Internet, we're going to tax EVERYTHING"
When are parents going to start taking responsibility for raising their own kids. If you're not going to spend the time to instill enough morals in your kids to know that killing is wrong, you have no business being a parent let alone blaming a video game for your poor parenting...not to mention the parents are probably the ones who bought them the console and the game. These are probably the same parents who are suing McDonalds for getting them fat. Total lack of accepting any responsibility, this is what today's parents look like.
But the author's website must have been down
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It's not compulsary. Depending on your distribution there should be ways to leave out parts of Gnome you don't want. Consult your package manager documentation...
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Sounds strangely familiar, and my hope is it doesn't turn into:
"I think that Microsoft would probably say that these are simply enhancements to a user's experience," he said. "The sensitivity here is (because of) Microsoft's dominance on the desktop."
"There are shades of IE" in Microsoft's Windows XP strategy, said Charles King, an analyst with Zona Research in Redwood City, California, in a recent interview. "It does raise the specter again as to what constitutes an operating system."
Isn't that what the "Paypal Donate" button is for (the one that never gets clicked...once) ?
Isn't this kind of a Microsoft-ish approach...bundling a desktop environment with lame add-on dependencies that I don't want to use?
Ah, yet another wimpy little software patent protest on gnome's website. I'm sure having a little button will sway all of Europe to vote against them...just like all the little yellow ribbons stopped terrorism, and all the little pink ribbons stopped breast cancer. Wasn't there a button to stop abortion, and another little button you could wear to fight the war on drugs? Seriously, this is a pathetic display of protest and will achieve nothing. If you really want to protest software patents in Europe, take a more dramatic approach like some sites did the first day (rpmfind) and pull the plug on all your downloads. Imagine what kind of effect it would have if half the software in the world disappeared for a little while...certainly enough firepower to make Europe think twice...or maybe not...but it's a hell of a lot better than posting a stupid little button on your website.
- gcc 3.2: FREE - java sdk: FREE - gdb debugger, libefence, and other debugging tools: FREE Not having to use Windows: PRICELESS.